Quotes About Ambition

You want to be the baddest guy in the kitchen and you want the person next to you to know it.

Since I was 14, I worked more than 13 hours a day as a kitchen runner for a butcher.

I'm not a cook at all, but I wanted to have a house with a really nice kitchen.

So, when I was about eight, I told my mother that I wanted to be a chef - and a police man, too. I didn't totally know that was it at the time, but I was very attracted to it from the beginning. I liked the idea of working with people in a kitchen, of dealing with ingredients, all of it.

You see, where I'm from, fighting is simply not a 'girl's thing.' In Umuarama, I grew up playing football, which to my family was also not a girl's thing, to be honest. Playing football was my biggest passion. I wanted to be on TV, to be just like Marta. I even had a knack for it.

When my knee feels good, I'm always going to feel I can do more.

Every kid in America dreams of playing in the big leagues and they don't, just because. It's not because they blew out their knee. It's just because they didn't make it.

A knee injury is never something you want, especially at the time that I got it. I was flying at the time.

My old knee injury has never allowed me to get back to where I want to be as a football player; it's always hindered me.

I want to be out there playing but at the same time I know my knee won't allow me to play at my best and to keep my place in the team. I'm hindering myself more than I am helping myself for the future.

I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.

I knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I've always wanted to do.

I never knew Artist was going to get this big. When I was making it, I put my all into it. But you never know what's going to happen with something you make.

I've been managing myself for some time now, and after accomplishing many goals here in Brazil, I knew it was time to make new contacts and do bigger things on an international level.

I knew a lot of girls who just wanted to be famous, and if that's your goal, that's awesome; that just wasn't enough for me.

I always knew I was gonna be an artist. I was very confident in that.

They let me do my diploma from home, but I always knew I was destined to do something creative, so I didn't care.

Even at the age of 12, I knew I had to become a bodybuilder. I don't know why or how, but I just knew.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

I always knew I'd be more of a character actor than a leading man, and I always wanted to take that and run with it.

I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp.

As a kid, New York was in my blood, and that was it. I got a chance to play for the Knicks, so it was cool, but it was towards the end of my career.

I want to have a long career in the NBA. First, I want to be an All-Star, and hopefully one day I can win a ring with the New York Knicks.

My late grandfather, rest in peace, he was the biggest Knicks fan and he always told me I'd play for the Knicks, so it would mean a lot for me to play for the team.